Posts Tagged ‘oscar wilde’

Dare or not to dare. Choose or not to choose, this is the question of orientation

-> Dare or not to dare. Choose or not to choose, this is the question of orientation

I can loose my sense of direction but I can´t loose the instinct to dream. I´ll pass this saying on posterity authorizing it to use it! In 2003 I faced this issue. After so many years I want to ask you all if we are able now to choose the right direction. To orient yourself means to choose, browsing through all the abundance that surrounds ...

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Straight on target

Magazine -> #6 Orientation

Determined action but also long, drawn-out, wearisome even, negotiations. In any case, all committed efforts aimed at reaching an objective, at achieving a goal. But what if purpose is blurred? Let us then come to terms with the essential meaning of artistic endeavour and the artist’s strivings and struggle. Straight on target. Like Lucio Font...

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Amedei: temptation

Magazine -> #5 The Dictatorship of the Consumption

Amedei is the courage to pursue a dream. It is a new generation of chocolate producers with the know-how that was passed down from a family who processes confectionery raw materials, with a dream that was inherited from grandmother Amedei, a Tuscany-born woman who was fond of cooking, flavours and taste. “I can resist everything except temptat...

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On butterflies’ wings

Magazine -> #21 Senti-mentally

In front a cup of coffee. “I learnt to paint like Raphael, now I have to learn to draw like a child.” Pablo Picasso I’ve often wondered whether art and life are really related. Some artists have indeed turned their lives into their best work of art. But what a price some have had to pay for their commitment and approach to life! Oscar...

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A skyscraper towards the moon

Magazine -> #16 Beautiful and well made

Paul Goldberger is the Dean of Parsons The New School for Design, and one of the nation’s most eminent critics and writers on architecture and design.  Dean Goldberger has helped shape public understanding of the social and political implications of design for nearly three decades. First, as the architecture critic of The New York Times, where h...

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